Youtube videos that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:44 pm

Daughters have become more desirable as education and jobs for women have become the norm. Some countries have some catching up to do, but it's something that's been changing very quickly.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:19 pm

Also note that in countries like India, dowry customs play a significant part in not wanting girls.

As the Child marriages (both bride and groom are young) were prevalent in India, the brides parents offer dowry to the grooms family in the form of money and materials. This is in order to help support the livelihood of the bride until groom grows up to support her himself. The opposite of this is called Kanyashulkam.

In India dowry (known as Dahej in Hindi)[16] is the payment in cash or some kind of gifts given to bridegroom's family along with the bride. Generally they include cash, jewellery,[17] electrical appliances, furniture, bedding, crockery, utensils and other household items that help the newly-wed set up her home.

In India the dowry system has been putting great financial burden[18] on the daughters family. It has been one of the reasons for families and women in India resorting to sex selection [19] favoring to have a son.[20] This has distorted the sex ratio in India (933 females per thousand males [21]) and has given rise to female foeticide.[22]

The payment of a dowry has been prohibited under The 1961 Dowry Prohibition Act in Indian civil law and subsequently by Sections 304B and 498a of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Despite the anti-dowry law in India, it is still widely and illegally practiced across the country.[23]

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:39 pm

I'm pretty sure I said that Tzor. The selection for men/foeticide of girls in rural, tribal countries is almost 90% financial. From huge Financial burden (Dowry) to the lack of work for daughters.

Basically, good girls have only 1 job, 'home maker'. And this job doesn't help their birth family. (Though an elder daughter can help raise younger siblings for a while). So, when you have too many mouths to feed, you sell your daughter into prostitution because a) it's great cash, b) it's one less mouth to feed, and c) what else was she going to do for the family, put you in ruin to try and marry her off?

Education, modernization are the only ways to combat this issue. Of course, this creates other problems. As education improves in 3rd world countries, then the job market fluctuates.

In the long run, we need to find a way to remove the need for people to work for the 3 basics (Food, Shelter, Electricity). But of course, this flies in the face of Free Market, so it's like you're worse than a pedophile, if you bring it up.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:10 pm

sabs wrote:In the long run, we need to find a way to remove the need for people to work for the 3 basics (Food, Shelter, Electricity).

People will always "work" for them because as the cost of each goes down one imposes a higher standard that requires more "work." The real goal is the elimination of the need for "excessive" work for the reasonably minimum requirements.

I can't think of anything that can effectively bring down base costs other than a "free" market. Government either causes the prices to go higher, or forces the prices low resulting in supply shortages and black market prices to be even higher.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:50 am

The song isn't that good, but the video is fucking brilliant.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:24 am

Dzham: I'm From Russia (spending money like an oligarch)

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Oct 29, 2011 2:36 am

Mario is a furry

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 7:13 am

I love ramzpaul normally but this shit is great

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 6:19 pm

Cat teasing his friends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnojQF08gSM

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:58 pm

ishy wrote:Cat teasing his friends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnojQF08gSM

Bwahahahaa, ok, that one made me crack up ^^

And nor for the complete opposite reaction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uELeeRer4Hg

Red_Rob · Post by **Red_Rob** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:01 am

Spoony is doing a series of stories from his RPG sessions, highlighting among other things why wishes are a bad idea and why winners don't use (skin absorbed) drugs.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 9:54 pm

At least one of you kids didn't know Weird Al had done this one so I had to post it in case anyone else missed out the first time around.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:07 am

The Hamster Wheel: Lord Monckton The Chaser crew interview Monckton as part of a skit where he is another Sacha Baron Cohen character. Awesome detected.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:14 am

Honey Badger gets bad-ass endorsement deal

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:35 am

A couple days late, but this is awesome anyway.

Jilocasin · Post by **Jilocasin** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:11 pm

The end of Voltron.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:29 am

erik wrote:A couple days late, but this is awesome anyway.

amazingly, your link is from last year and somehow dude

improved it for 2011

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:55 am

Oops. The 2011 was the one I saw originally. However, my 2 year old was clicking around going through all the various related links. By the time I posted I had lost track of that newer version and assumed 2010 was the only version of that one.

Thanks =-)

Shatner · Post by **Shatner** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:59 am

On the board there have been discussions about adventuring parties with wildly disparate power levels therein. Sokka v. Aang. Frodo v. Gandalf. Madmartigan v. Willow/Fin Raziel... and so on. This is a funny look at that sort of thing.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:04 am

So, the UC Davis chancellor orders police to remove a dozen students protesting tuition hikes. The students are sitting down, arms linked, and doing nothing.

Police officer in question walks the line and holds the trigger on the can.

Chancellor then puts the officer on leave, the chief of campus police on leave, and apologizes but refuses to leave office. The students let her know how they feel by silent protest on her way to her car from a press conference.

The silence is just downright eerie.

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:44 pm

What's worse is.. he walked back and forth spraying them with pepper spray repeatedly. It was like, "I hold the trigger and just hose them down" for sitting there linked.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:54 pm

i would so love for some people to grab such people like that "police"-guy, hold open his eyes and spray an entire can of pepperspray into his face . .

won't be long now untill they spray somebody with a severe allergy to something in tht spray and probably kill them with it . .

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:52 pm

Stahlseele wrote:i would so love for some people to grab such people like that "police"-guy, hold open his eyes and spray an entire can of pepperspray into his face . .

A lot of people could die if that happened. I don't know how the Law works in Germany, but police in the US are untouchable as long as they use [usually] nonlethal weapons, and can use any weapons at all with impunity once they find themselves under attack.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:27 pm

sabs wrote:What's worse is.. he walked back and forth spraying them with pepper spray repeatedly. It was like, "I hold the trigger and just hose them down" for sitting there linked.

So, it's like 2003 all over again.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:33 am

Apathetic bird is apathetic

{strangely adorable}